My achievement on Net
Sam
Mwaka-karama
I
joined the net in the mid 1990s. Three years after print publishing my
newsletter MONAKK – that had quickly folded-up due to lack of funds. The new
popular ‘dot
com’ jargons appealed to my ear, heart and mind so much I had to get
to know the prideful sounding ‘online’ systems. I too was still a proud man
then. And to me the net symbolized just that! Uniqueness!
It was
fun sending a letter to a friend and getting response by Email
till I shockingly learnt that one mail could be sent instantly to so
many email addresses at once! OMG was it fan! So that was the dot.com one
could write a whole article and instantly mail it to so many Email addresses… marvelous!
There
was a whole broad spectrum of areas of discussions; political, economic, trade/business,
travel issues, Visa factors and many-many more areas of discussions kept us
busy often exchanging Email two, three, four even five times a day.
Google was to me a wonderful [sound-name] I likened to the
[goo-goo] cry of those large, long-winged Owls. The bird associated with wisdom
and wizardry.
It was
sickening: say if one went to an internet café, paid. Then found no mails from
friends! That was the limit! It was how vital exchange of information was among
friends back then in the 1990s.
By the
turn of the century a new jargon had appeared Blog for me that was it! As a
writer this was my place. I became a blogger and uploaded
selected articles and an occasional poem I wrote.
Actually
finding my way around configuring my blog page was challenging. But I did really
enjoy the trial and era moves. The reading and re-reading of the instructions
and guidelines and the terms and conditionality. And the ‘learn more’ every
turn of the way. It was a whole study.
Google was great as a powerful search engine. I got to
search and even just came across so many new website. I recall at one time perhaps
in 2008 or earlier, I was looking for some site under the letter ‘C’ and
noticed ‘CreateSpace’ so I diverted from my original
search to explore CreateSpace and in the
process registered as a member. But never went back for nearly four years…
In the meantime, over the years I
had developed my book; ‘The Water Trap’ and wanted to publish with
Amazon. Thus began my Indie publishing process April 2013. And by
November 2013, my book went live on Amazon eBook stores worldwide. This January
2013 I utilized Google translate to self publish my book in German and Dutch/Flemish. ***
Writer is an Independent
Thinker, Blogger, Author and Indie Publisher
